From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Jul 7 10:32:26 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from fac13.ds.psu.edu (fac13.ds.psu.edu [146.186.61.98]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D0FC837BDFE for ; Fri, 7 Jul 2000 10:32:13 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from hawk@fac13.ds.psu.edu) Received: from fac13.ds.psu.edu (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by fac13.ds.psu.edu (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id NAA99997; Fri, 7 Jul 2000 13:30:52 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from hawk@fac13.ds.psu.edu) Message-Id: <200007071730.NAA99997@fac13.ds.psu.edu> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.1.1 10/15/1999 To: Michael Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: allowing ftp logins but not shell logins In-Reply-To: Your message of "Thu, 06 Jul 2000 12:58:42 PDT." Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Fri, 07 Jul 2000 13:30:52 -0400 From: "Richard E. Hawkins" Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > What I would like to have is something where persons can drop off files in > a certain directory and the files would be owned by a user foo or by a > group foo. How can I go about setting this up. Pointers to man pages or > anything else would be greatly appreciated. I can't tell you whether or not it's the *best* way, but you can make their login shell /usr/bin/false, which means that a succesful login merely runs false and exits . . . hawk To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message